Meat-hanging device



J. H. GIROUX.

MEAT HANGING DEVICE. APRLiCATlON FILEDOCT. 23, 1920.

1,404,436, Patented Jan. 24,1922.

/77 venfor //7f Giroux UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MEAT-HANGING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 24, 1922.

Application filed October 23, 1920. Serial No. 419,121.

To aZZwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosnrI-r HENRI GIROUX, a British subject, residingat #1952 St. Urbain St, in the city of Montreal, in the Province ofQuebec, in the Dominion of known fact that once meat has been hung on ahook, the hole made therein enlarges gradually, owing to the hangingweight, thus providing an opening tinged with fresh blood, as itgradually enlarges, which attracts fiies. After a certain time, thisportion of the quarter of meat becomes putrified and must be removedbefore being sent to the consumer, which naturally means a completeloss. Thus, in hanging meat by the means described in the followingdescription and accompanying drawings, considerable saving willbeeffected.

In the drawings Figure lvis a perspective view of the device.

Figure 2 is a front elevation.

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view of one of the gripping jaws.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings:

1 is a yoke-shape frame, preferably of cast steel or any other suitablematerial, having in each of its free ends a slot 2. The upper edge, onthe inner side, and the lower edge, on the outer side of the slot 2, arecut to form an oblique portion 3, to provide suflicient space for theupward movement of the gripping jaws 4. The said aws or gripping members4 COIISI St of a bar 5 pivotally secured at 6 in said hole or slot 2,each having at its inwardly pro ecting end a gripping member 7. The saidgripping member 7 is preferably large enough to form a suitable gripthat should not damage the meat.

As both bars 5 project inwardly from each free end of the yoke-shapeframe 1, and their downward movement is limited by the hori- Zontal edge8 of the slot 2, a quarter of meat placed between the grips 7, when saidbars 5 are swung open as disclosed in dotted lines in Figure 2 of thedrawings, will, by its own weight, pull said bars 5 down, and thus gripfirmly in between the gripping members 7.

The said bars 5 preferably project outside of said yoke-shape frame 1,to provide handles 8, by means of which, the meat held in between thegrips may be relased, by pressing thereon, to swing said bars open. Aspiral spring 9 is provided on each of said bars 5 to normally keep saidbars 5 in their horizontal position, said springs 91 being secured atone end to eyelets 10 on the yokeshape frame 1 and the bars 5.

The particular yoke-shape frame is considered a very important featureof the present invention, on account of the considerable strengthobtained thereby, but naturally, it should be understood that a frame ofany other suitable shape could be used without departing from the spiritand scope of the present invention.

hat I claim as my invention is:

A device of the character described, comprising a supporting framehaving rigid arms permanently fixed with relation to each other; a pairof cooperating gripping members pivotally mounted one on each arm, saidarms permitting said gripping members to swing upwardly but preventingthem swinging downwardly past a substantially horizontal position; andmeans for holding said gripping members at the limits of their downwardmovements.

Signed at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this 27th day of September, 1920.

JOSEPH HENRI GIROUX.

Witnesses C. PATENAUDE, A. TUOIE.

